Research Education and Training Calendar

Join us for the first TAAHC Webinar of the year!! In this episode, we want to help you conquer what can be a crushing and overwhelming feeling of “where do I start” when you are writing up your research to publish!!! Please join Rae Thomas, Denise Craig, Allison Hempenstall, and Melissa Crowe to learn about what are the important components of a research article and how these flow together. Hear from the panel about the tips and tricks that helped them write up their research while being busy clinicians. Ask the tricky questions!

Join us for this month’s webinar exploring the challenges and opportunities of conducting clinical trials in regional, rural, and remote northern Queensland. Gain insights from people who set up, conduct, and support these trials daily. Unlock the potential of extending clinical trial research to underserved communities.

Do you want to present your research or evaluation project at a conference? This session will give you practical tips on preparing abstracts that will catch the attention of conference organisers and give you the best chance of being accepted.

Listen to this month’s webinar to learn about the types of questions health economics can answer and key health economics concepts like efficiency, scarcity, and opportunity costs. This webinar will also introduce the main types of economic evaluations used in healthcare decision making, including cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. More broadly, this webinar will also look at why health economics is increasingly important in today’s healthcare landscape and how it can help drive value in healthcare.

This webinar is presented by Professor Sharon Mickan. Professor Mickan will provide you with a practical introduction to the Knowledge to Action Framework and the tools needed to frame your knowledge-practice gap. 

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Knowledge translation worksheet

In this month’s webinar hear how Carissa Bonner’s small qualitative project in her PhD grew into a decade long program of research to improve Heart Health Checks. Grow your research too!

This webinar provided information about openly available and restricted health datasets in NSW, how to establish which data can answer your research question, and how to go about accessing that data.

Hear Catherine Wilkes, Karen Johnston, Deb Smith and Rae Thomas discuss different ways they have engaged communities in their research. Karen, Deb (JCU researchers) and Catherine (a community member on the project team) partnered with remote communities in northern Queensland to conduct a place-based approach to health planning. Rae describes Citizen/Community Juries she has used in her research. Learn how these techniques or their variations can help you involve communities and consumers in research. 

This session has been designed for health professionals and researchers who would like to become more familiar with qualitative research techniques, how to design rigorous qualitative studies, or who want to understand how to critically appraise qualitative research.

JCU Murtupuni research staff are facilitating Research Training Workshops for our local clinicians and novice researchers throughout our footprint in North West Queensland, Central West Queensland, and Lower Gulf and Western Cape regions who may be interested in learning about research or improving their research skills and knowledge.

These workshops are designed for people who are new to research and early career researchers.

Welcome researchers, policymakers, and anyone passionate about responsible research! This on-line workshop delves into the critical world of ethics and governance in conducting research. We'll explore the guiding principles that ensure research is conducted with integrity, protects participants, and ultimately benefits society. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or just embarking on your research journey, this workshop equips you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the ever-evolving ethical landscape.

Feeling overwhelmed by research? This interactive, in-person workshop equips you with the skills to navigate library resources and master EndNote citation management software. This session is perfect for students and researchers of all levels and anyone who wants to improve their research efficiency.

It is nearly impossible to keep up with relevant research in a clinical field. Systematic reviews are a synthesis of original research articles and the highest level of evidence for focused health-related, research questions. In this month’s skills session join Rae Thomas to learn a quick way to appraise systematic reviews and decipher a forest plot that is generated from a meta-analysis. Register now!

Why do we need ethics to do research? Learn more about Queensland Health Research Ethics processes here.

Presented by Sara Hubbard, Research Governance Officer, Torres and Cape HHS

The workshop is a free, hybrid, professional development opportunity which will cover the steps involved in planning and undertaking health research. Learn from short plenaries and apply these learnings to hypothetical scenarios in small groups.

This webinar endeavours to empower researchers to handle research data responsibly and efficiently. You will learn how to comply with Queensland Health data management standards and policies, securely store and access your research data, enhance your data quality and ensure research integrity, and maximize the value and impact of your research findings.This program is ideal for researchers, data managers, and anyone involved in health research.

For all Torres and Cape HHS staff!!!

Join this virtual drop-in session to learn about library resources, point of care tools, and CKN.

Link to be provided soon.

This one-day interactive course is designed to provide professionals with a broad understanding of the role, uses and benefits of using a public health advocacy approach in efforts to promote health and wellbeing of communities. Participants will be introduced to a public health advocacy model, and work through it in groups.  Theory and case studies will integrated to support the learning process. No prior knowledge of advocacy is required. There will be a ceiling of 40 participants, so register now!

In this month’s webinar, we will explore how digital health innovations are transforming healthcare in Northern Queensland’s rural and remote areas. The Northern Australian Regional Digital Health Collaboration (NARDHC) team Michelle Krahe, Daniel Foulkes and Sarah Larkins join us to talk about the role digital technology can play in improving patient outcomes and enhancing productivity in healthcare.

You will discover:

• How digital health innovations are transforming healthcare access and outcomes in Northern Queensland, particularly in overcoming the unique challenges of rural and remote areas through technology that bridges service delivery gaps.
• The crucial role of partnerships in advancing digital health strategies and how NARDHC’s collaborative efforts exemplify how working together can lead to substantial improvements in healthcare delivery.
• How NARDHC’s work on Health Information Exchange and other solutions demonstrates the need for seamless data integration to enhance healthcare coordination and effectiveness.

Join Maru Castellanos from School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University to learn about quantitative research designs.

This workshop is in 2 parts.

Part 1 Friday 16th August,

Part 2 Friday 23rd August.

This workshop is being held for Outback Allied Health Forum speakers specifically, but all clinicians and novice researchers are welcome to attend.

This workshop covers what makes a good (and bad) scientific presentation or poster, and graphic design basics.

The workshop is a free, hybrid, professional development opportunity which will cover the steps involved in planning and undertaking health research. Learn from short plenaries and apply these learnings to hypothetical
scenarios in small groups.

Have you ever seen a great presentation and wondered how the person did it? If this is you, this is the Webinar NOT to miss. Please join Alexandra Trollope share some handy tips on how to prepare and execute your presentation to keep your audience engaged and most importantly how to get your message across by getting to the point!

If you need any more convincing, perhaps you could watch Alex’s successful TED talk here.

The next Rural Research Collaborative Learning Network (RR-CLaN)* Seminar will take place online on Wednesday 4^th September 2024, 3:00pm-4:00pm. In the seminar, Dr Josh Zadro will present “How to search the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) to answer clinical questions”. This session aims to facilitate evidence-based practice by developing attendee’s knowledge and skills in asking clinical questions and acquiring evidence using PEDro. The session is not just for physiotherapists, and is relevant to anyone involved who is interested in, or involved in the management and referral of patients to physiotherapy services.

Expressions of intertest are now open for the Townsville Hospital and Health Service (THHS) and Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre (TAAHC) one day Planning and Undertaking Research Workshop.

The workshop will be held from 8.15am to 4pm on Thursday, 12 September 2024 and is a free professional development opportunity which will cover the steps involved in planning and undertaking health research.

 Staff from the Townsville HHS, North West HHS, Cairns & Hinterland HHS, Mackay HHS, Torres & Cape HHS, JCU and NQ Primary Health Network from any employment stream or discipline who have an interest in research, can register to attend.

Staff can attend in-person at JCU in Townsville or via Microsoft Teams. Participation counts towards Professional Development time.

Register by close of business 30 August 2024

Almost everyone stores their data in an Excel spreadsheet initially, but mostly Excel can’t actually do the analyses they need, so eventually the data needs to be transferred to a statistical package like SPSS or R or Stata or MedCalc.  That transfer process often ends up generating serious errors and taking far more time than the actual analysis.  It doesn’t have to! But avoiding that means knowing how to store the data properly in Excel in the first place.  Join TAAHC's own Rhondda Jones to find out what it all means.

No, IMRAD style is not the latest dance move rather an abbreviation that stands for “Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion”. IMRAD is a commonly used structure to help get you started when writing up the findings of your research for publication. Learn how to conquer what can be an overwhelming feeling of “where do I start”. Join us for a presentation and panel discussion that will explain IMRAD, suggestions on how to get started writing for publication and gain some insights, tips and tricks from your colleagues who have published.

 During this session we will cover:

• Writing for publication using the IMRAD structure
• Strategies to help get you on your way to publication
• Panel discussion: tips and tricks from local clinicians who have published (or are in the process of publishing) their research

This workshop will provide an overview of Qualitative Research methods in health research.
Presented by Dr Alice Cairns, Murtupuni Centre for Rural and Remote Health JCU
This session is open to all clinicians, new researchers, or anyone interested in learning more about health research.

Save the date for the last TAAHC Webinar for 2024!

This workshop will provide an overview of Service Evaluation and Quality Improvement in health services research. 

Presented by Dr Alice Cairns, Murtupuni Centre for Rural and Remote Health JCU
This session is open to all clinicians, new researchers, or anyone interested in learning more about health research.